Friday, 14 June 2013

Too Many Dinner Parties
is a series of exhibitions and events involving three curatorial
projects by PS² (Belfast), Economic Thought Projects (Galway) and Paul
Hallahan (formely SOMA Contemporary, Waterford). These events and
exhibitions take place over Summer and Autumn 2013 in The Shed,
126 Artist-led Gallery and various locations in Galway City. The work
produced in this exhibition focuses specifically on participatory art
and collaborative engagements. Engage studio members, national artists,
disparate
groups and people from different cities and communities were invited to
respond to one-of-a-kind curatorial programme. Too Many Dinner Parties
is an Engage Studios Project that has been generously funded by The
Arts Council of Ireland through the Visual Art Project Award and is
coordinated by Engage Studio members Shelly McDonnell, Carol Anne
Connolly and Vicky Smith. It is is kindly facilitated by The Galway
Harbour Company and Adapt Galway. Adapt Galway is a coalition of visual
arts organizations working together to create a united vision for the
arts in Galway.

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Come one Come all....Adapt Galway Fundraiser | The Harbour Hotel | June 6th |9pm. Music by The Hardcore Priests of Yemen, My Fellow Sponges and DJ’s DELETIA and FEED ME WEIRD THINGS, admission only 5 yo yo’s on the door! Proceeds on the night will go toward Adapt Galway @ The Shed.Adapt Galway took up residency at The Shed located on the Centre Pier of Galway Harbour in April 2012 with the generous support of The Galway Harbour Company. Over a year on and it is going from strength to strength. The organization has hosted four workspace projects and seven exhibitions with almost 5,000 visitors coming through its doors!

The Shed has ultimately become a site for experimentation – for making, exhibiting and performing. The programme consists of an almost non-stop, year-round schedule of events and has included the works of some truly innovative local, national and international artists and curators.

Adapt Galway @ The Shed is determined to continue supporting artists in this city and thrives to provide a unique platform for artists to showcase their talents at a local and national level, it is entirely run by unpaid volunteers, from local visual art organizations and does not receive any state or local funding, YET! This is why we would appreciate your continued support, so please come by to The Harbour Hotel on June 6th!

Prior to the fundraiser, opening @ The Shed, 7pm, the exhibition 22˚AT THE DOCKS presenting work by third year students from the Ceramic & Sculpture Departments at The Centre for Creative Arts & Media, GMIT. After Party @ The Harbour Hotel!

"Roadrunner, roadrunnerGoing faster miles an hourGonna drive past the Stop 'n' ShopWith the radio on"Roadrunner, The Modern Lovers

Artist collective Angry Hammers present 'Let There Be' a new multi media installation in The Shed exhibition space in the Galway Docks. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday the 24th of May at 8pm and runs daily, 1 - 6pm through to Tuesday May 28th.

'Let There Be' stems from a common bond shared by every member of Angry Hammers, the fact that each member’s parents owned a Fiat 127. Reacting to this they have created an immersive multi-media installation that explores physics and science fiction within the context of 20th century pop culture references to cars and the freedom they represent. 'Let There Be' responds to The Shed’s look and location, a large corrugated steel warehouse flanked by a working docks and a scrapheap, transforming the venue into a sinister place that falls somewhere between a laboratory and a film set. Angry Hammers will create a new vehicle; the Fiat 137, a car of potential, the car of the past, present and future in an effort to explore the ideas of escape and freedom that cars represent.

The installation is particularly inspired by ‘Cargo Cults’. These religions popped up in the Pacific Islands after World War II when natives built bamboo radio towers and landing strips hoping to lure back the American planes that overflowed with cargo while the islands were occupied during the conflict. The handmade sets were created in an effort to re-enact or revise the past in order to assert control over the present and future. Taking this source, Angry Hammers have added more contemporary references to physics, science fiction and psychology, particularly the concept of the multiverse and the mysteries surrounding the number 137. The prime number 137 directly references the Golden Circle, a symbol of perfection and balance that holds importance in science, religion and mysticism. Much like the Cargo Cults attempted to recreate a nostalgic time through reenactment, Angry Hammers have remade the Fiat 127 into the Fiat 137 in an attempt to revisit the seemingly simpler and more perfect past. The above quotes reflect these themes found in the show, the first being a favourite quote of pioneering physicist Niels Bohr and the second, lyrics from one of the best songs about driving and listening to rock and roll.

Angry Hammers is the moniker for a number of contemporary artists who collaborate together on unique exhibition opportunities. We use improvisational techniques to create ambitious, challenging, experimental and playful work that embraces the unforeseen. Angry Hammers take their inspiration from the Bertolt Brecht quote "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it”.

Kindly supported by Galway City Council, Adapt Galway and The Galway Harbour Company.

Contributing artists have responded to ideas of the dialogue between the production and consumption of information, focusing on the subjectivity of data and culturally adopted conventions.Exhibition dates: April 11th - 27thOpening times: Tuesday- Saturday, 12-6pm, or by appointment.Lorg Printmakers

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

When you hear the words
docks, harbour and shed what is the one image that springs to mind?
Art? maybe not a few years ago, but since the launch of The Shed by Adapt Galway a
year ago this April, Galway Harbour is now a hive of creative activity.

Adapt Galway took up residency at The Shed in April,
2012, facilitated by the generous support of the Galway Harbour Company and
Galway City Arts Office. A year on and it is going from strength to strength.
The Shed has ultimately become a site for experimentation – for making,
exhibiting and performing. The programme consists of an almost non-stop,
year-round schedule of events and has, over the year included the works of some
truly innovative local, national and international artists.

There are some
extraordinary things happening in art in this city and Adapt @ The Shed is
determined to continue supporting this. Adapt and The Shed is and continues to
be, entirely run by unpaid volunteers and thrives to provide a unique platform
for local artists to showcase their talents at a local and national level.
Adapt also hopes to highlight the great potential of such vacant spaces around
the city and how they could be used in the future.

We are delighted to
announce that we will be continuing our residency at The Shed for another year!
We are currently finalizing our programme for 2013/2014, so watch this space
for updates and news!

The very successful
exhibition “If
you Cut Through the Present the Future Leaks Out"presented by
the international collective Expanded Draught just ended. Lorg Printmakers are the next Galway based organization
to take over The Shed, opening Thursday April 11th at 7pm.Presenting An Exhibition of Contemporary
Printmaking: Lorg Presents… bringing
together works by over 16 national and international artists working in a
variety of contemporary print media, spanning from traditional printmaking,
sculptural works, photography, collage and book art.

Expanded Draught is an international artist collective founded in Galway city in 2006. From Galway it has expanded, to Dublin, England, Canada, Korea, America: Maryland, Texas, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, New york, Colorado, Tennessee, Oregon, and Georgia. They have exhibited collaboratively in both America and Ireland; the aim is to continue and expand further afield. Commitment to support visual artists in the creation of high quality dynamic art works is at the fore. The collective promote collaboration and the sharing of information, skills and knowledge through the facilitation of workshops, talks, discussions and exhibitions.

Expanded Draught aspire to create a platform for diverse artists to showcase their work and form relationships with artists from various countries around the world, creating large scale individual /collaborative works, interactive and inclusive projects using both unconventional and conventional spaces.

This show has been Kindly Sponsored By:

BierhausThe Roisin DubhGym Repair GalwayStudio Say Do And facilitated by the generous support of Adapt Galway and The Galway Harbour Company

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

We are back ... now that the weather is getting warmer Adapt Galway are ready to host our first exhibition of 2013 @ The Shed ----> Starting March 9th Expanded Draught international artist collective will present an exhibition under the theme of when you cut through the present the future will leak out. Opening reception @ 7 p.m. March 9th. The Shed. Galway Harbour

Adapt Galway @ The Shed

About

The Shed is a large 4,000 square foot industrial warehouse located on the middle pier at Galway City Harbour,owned and managed by Galway Harbour Company. Adapt Galway took up residency at The Shed in March 2012, presenting projects, events and exhibitions by visual arts organizations based in Galway. Adapt Galway is a coalition of visual arts organizations working together to create a united vision for the visual arts in Galway. It also supports and campaigns for the use of appropriate vacant spaces in the city centre for creative purposes.